Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    A Killing in Comics
    Unavailable
    A Killing in Comics
    Unavailable
    A Killing in Comics
    Ebook256 pages2 hours

    A Killing in Comics

    By Max Allan Collins

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    In Manhattan of 1948, a famous former striptease artist named Maggie Starr runs her late husband's newspaper syndicate, distributing the superhero comic Wonder Guy. But when the cartoon's publisher winds up dead, Maggie hunts for the killer among a cast of cartoonists, wives and mistresses, and minions of a different sort of syndicate — a crew of suspects with motives that are far from super-heroic.
    Hailed by Mickey Spillane as "a terrific writer," and by Publishers Weekly as "the master of true-crime fiction," author Max Allan Collins is the creator of the bestselling graphic novel Road to Perdition. Artist Terry Beatty is the co-creator with Max Allan Collins of the long-running private-eye series, Ms. Tree. Their other collaborations include Mike Mist, Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger, and Johnny Dynamite.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateAug 10, 2015
    ISBN9780486807270
    Unavailable
    A Killing in Comics
    Author

    Max Allan Collins

    <p>Max Allan Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. He is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller thrillers and the graphic novel <em>Road to Perdition</em>, basis of the Academy Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks. His innovative Quarry novels led to a 2016 Cinemax series. He has completed a dozen posthumous Mickey Spillane mysteries, and wrote the syndicated <em>Dick Tracy</em> series for more than fifteen years. His one-man show, <em>Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life</em>, was an Edgar Award finalist. He lives in Iowa.</p>

    Read more from Max Allan Collins

    Related to A Killing in Comics

    Related ebooks

    Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Best Of The Year That Was

      Dec 23, 2020

      Best Of The Year That Was
      5 min read

    • Article

      Man About Town

      Sep 30, 2021

      IN THRALL TO THE STONE-AGE superstition that we will drop down dead if we hear certain forbidden phonemes, society (“borne back ceaselessly into the past”) has now reached the next anthropological taboo, to wit, images: people skulk in terror past st

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Big Bang

      Apr 5, 2019

      The Big Bang
      11 min read

    • Article

      Birds Of Play

      Feb 9, 2023

      Birds Of Play
      8 min read

    • Article

      Gangster Bedtime Stories

      Jun 5, 2019

      Gangster Bedtime Stories
      6 min read

    • Article

      My Interiors Life: Weaned On The Small Screen

      Nov 25, 2021

      FOR ME, IT WAS ALL DOWN TO what I saw on the box (which was a lot) — and this extended too to the arenas of action: a fantastic littering of such beautiful and extraordinary interiors, not one of which had I ever set foot in, nor even so much as glim

      9 min read

    • Article

      Old School's New Cool

      Sep 6, 2022

      Old School's New Cool
      13 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Letters

      Sep 20, 2023

      SIR: My mother, for one, was delighted that Gareth Neame chose Highclere Castle as the location for Downton Abbey (September issue). She was a teacher during the war, and her entire school was evacuated to Highclere. The awestruck reaction of a bunch

      6 min read

    • Article

      Woman About Town

      Sep 29, 2022

      ONE MIGHT IMAGINE THAT most people would be rather flattered to find themselves described as “the chosen ones”, but not so the “international aesthetes” who according to a French magazine are injecting new life into Venice. Like all cosmopolitan citi

      3 min read

    • Article

      Hedonism and History

      Nov 26, 2022

      Hedonism and History
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Cockroach Decade

      May 8, 2018

      They keep coming – novels, short stories, memoirs, journals, oral histories, documentaries and feature films that feed off the decade that goes by many names. Tom Wolfe called it the “Me Decade.” Martin Amis called it the “Joke Deca

      8 min read

    • Article

      Man About Town

      Oct 28, 2021

      AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH, I burst my chains of domestic bondage, Samson-like, and escaped hotfoot to Soho to sip white wine with ruffians to celebrate Dan Jones’s excellent new book, Powers and Thrones. Jones is one of these prolific coves who c

      4 min read

    • Article

      Beyond The Floppy Fringe

      Feb 24, 2022

      WHO NEEDS comedians when you’ve got 650 here-today-gone-tomorrow white collar bullshitters, a greedy civil service whirling through a 1000rpm revolving door, and a force of rozzers taking gardening leave till early retirement beckons? All of them peo

      3 min read

    • Article

      New Zealand Books

      Sep 8, 2019

      She’s a hard road finding the perfect way to write about comedy. Try to be funny and you’ll be unfavourably compared with your subjects. Resist all temptation to humour and you’ll be accused of producing something ironically dry given your subject, L

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Rise Of The Cat Burglar

      Feb 20, 2020

      The Rise Of The Cat Burglar
      7 min read

    • Article

      For The Love Of Panto

      Dec 17, 2021

      For The Love Of Panto
      7 min read

    • Article

      Lights, Camera, Corsicana

      Nov 26, 2020

      Lights, Camera, Corsicana
      10 min read

    • Article

      Taking Jokes Seriously

      Mar 10, 2021

      WHATEVER you think of the Bash Street Kids, the timing is inspired. This October, the stately neo-Classical Arts venue of Somerset House in London will hold an exhibition called ‘Beano: the Art of Breaking the Rules’. Founded in 1938 and now past its

      2 min read

    • Article

      Batmobiles, Bugs Bunny And James Dean’s Jeans: A Day Inside The Warner Bros Top-secret Archive

      Mar 25, 2023

      There is an actual Batcave in Los Angeles, where all the old Batmen live. I can’t tell you where: I signed an NDA. But in the most unlikely neighbourhood, in the most obscure location, lies a giant warehouse where Warner Bros keeps a century’s worth

      6 min read

    • Article

      Cowboys ‘N’ A-listers!

      May 18, 2023

      Cowboys ‘N’ A-listers!
      8 min read

    • Article

      “Getting Thrilled, Titillated Or Angry At Celebrities Can Change How We Think”

      Mar 19, 2020

      Ellie Cawthorne: You argue in the book that celebrity is a slippery concept. How do you define it? Greg Jenner: When I began writing, I made the foolish assumption that there would be a clear-cut definition of celebrity. But a year-and-a-half later

      7 min read

    • Article

      Enter The Bunker

      Sep 25, 2017

      WORDS SJ NAUDÉ WHEN YOU FIRST VISITED BERLIN IN 1999, THE FIRST PLACE YOU WENT TO SEE WAS A BUNKER: THE HOCHBUNKER ON PALLASSTRASSE. Hardly a place that would top most tourists’ list: a concrete colossus, graffiti- and water-stained, partially overgr

      3 min read

    • Article

      STUFF BOOKS & DVDs

      Jun 22, 2021

      STUFF BOOKS & DVDs
      5 min read

    Reviews for A Killing in Comics

    3.5/5

    16 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      "A Killing In Comics" is the first of three volumes in the Jack and Maggie Starr series, followed by "Strip For Murder" and "Seduction of the Innocent." It is a terrific historical mystery very much in the tradition of Collins' Nathan Heller series. It is hard boiled and filled with period references. It packs just the right amount of attitude and humor to be highly readable. Although the background of the story is certainly steeped in the comic book publishing world of the late forties, you don't have to know much about that industry to enjoy it.

      Take a glad-handing, overweight publishing executive. Dress him in a superhero costume - Wonder Guy to be precise. And, have him drop dead while cutting the cake at his birthday party thrown at his mistress's suite at the Waldorf-Astoria with his wife in attendance as well as several comic writers who are bitter about their contracts. All of a sudden, it seems like you have the makings of a story.
      Better yet, throw in a gorgeous world-famous ex-stripper who runs a comic syndicating service and her stepson, a private detective. Also, throw in s mobster or two, a homicide detective, a blonde whose blue eyes seem to hypnotize every man, and half a dozen others with murder motives and you've got a lot real good story brewing.

      Nothing weak or flimsy about this story. This is a solid one.
    • 3/5
      Interesting, competent mystery. I liked the post-WWII setting and the comics angle. For some reason, Collins' writing style just doesn't grab me though.